When the Federal Reserve offers its latest word on interest rates this week, few think it will telegraph the one thing investors have been most eager to know: When it will slow its bond purchases, which have kept long-term borrowing rates low.Full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen plans to moderate one of the panels at the annual monetary policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, next month, a Fed spokeswoman said on Monday. Full story

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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers his semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, in this file photo from July 17, 2013. A U.S. judge ruled that Ben Bernanke should testify in the multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the fo